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Practitioners engaged in Canadian post-secondary co-operative education programs regularly encounter ethical risk involving key stakeholders – co-op students, employers and the higher-education institution (HEI). Risk can seem minimal, such as...

The past seven months have been a wild, wild ride for our little department at the University of Lethbridge. During the pandemic, we’ve navigated a departmental re-organization while working remotely...

COVID-19 has upended many of the traditional learning, socializing and working contexts, leading to changes in the labour market and workplace opportunities. Less than one month into 2021, deep anxiety...

Co-operative education placements, research internships and work experience positions offer unique opportunities for students and newcomers to the world of work. Participants apply previous course-based learning and professional experience in...

Work-integrated learning has always been a critical component of college education, but like many activities around the world, it has largely been put on hold as social-distancing measures came into...

Career professionals working in co-op have to manage a complex landscape in co-ordination with students, employers and educational institutions....

Practical learning opportunities for students, under the broad banner of experiential learning (EL), come in many flavours. This may include formalized work-integrated learning (WIL) through co-op and internships, or other...

While I was the President of CEWIL (Co-operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning) Canada this past summer, I was extremely honoured to be one of the first signatories to a first-of-its-kind...

The changing perception of higher education institutions, from being hubs of intellectualism to centres of human capital development, has led to an increased emphasis on setting graduate employability as a strategic goal of higher education.    However, graduate...